Traveling with Iphone

Hey Guys,
I need some help from the American's in this forum, Basically i am coming to American in June from Australia. I really want to bring my iPhone with me as it will be a great tool to help me in my travels, but i will need to get a pre paid sim card because its far to expensive to use roaming with my Australian carrier.... So what i need is some options on what people thing i should do?
Thanks
Sean

Hey Guys,
I need some help from the American's in this forum, Basically i am coming to American in June from Australia. I really want to bring my iPhone with me as it will be a great tool to help me in my travels, but i will need to get a pre paid sim card because its far to expensive to use roaming with my Australian carrier.... So what i need is some options on what people thing i should do?
Thanks
Sean

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Your iPhone is unlocked right?

From my experience here are the two best options:

- if you just want to call and text for cheap you should get a T-Mobile SIM card with the sidekick plan. It costs $1 a day and you have unlimited texting. Calls cost 15 cents per minute. Tmobile doesn't allow data on prepaid plans.

- if you want data too you should get an AT&T SIM with Pay as You Go. Then you can add a data package that's $20 for 100MB. It's expensive but the US doesn't have great options for prepaid plans.

EDIT: Also to get data to work on AT&T prepaid you will need to do a custom profile for it to work. I'll add to this post when I can find all that information.

EDIT2: Found it. If you choose to get AT&T to get data to work you need to go to this website on your iPhone www.unlockit.co.nz and create a custom profile with this information:

After you click "create custom profile" it will take you to Settings on your iPhone and you just have to click "install". And that's it.

- if you just want to call and text for cheap you should get a T-Mobile SIM card with the sidekick plan. It costs $1 a day and you have unlimited texting. Calls cost 15 cents per minute. Tmobile doesn't allow data on prepaid plans.

- if you want data too you should get an AT&T SIM with Pay as You Go. Then you can add a data package that's $20 for 100MB. It's expensive but the US doesn't have great options for prepaid plans.

EDIT: Also to get data to work on AT&T prepaid you will need to do a custom profile for it to work. I'll add to this post when I can find all that information.

EDIT2: Found it. If you choose to get AT&T to get data to work you need to go to this website on your iPhone www.unlockit.co.nz and create a custom profile with this information:

After you click "create custom profile" it will take you to Settings on your iPhone and you just have to click "install". And that's it.

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WOW great thanks so much for all the info... yeah my phone is unlocked! the data is quiet expensive but i guess im only there for a month so shouldnt be to bad...

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